1-800-FREE411 Celebrates "The Best Things in Life are Free" Day.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. -- With tax time in full swing, people naturally get caught up in the money they make, the money they spend and the money Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, name used to designate the U.S. government. The term arose in the War of 1812 and seems at first to have been used derisively by those opposed to the war. Possibly it was an expansion of the letters "U.S. keeps taking away. But, on Wednesday, April 11th, 1-800-FREE411 is urging people to do just the opposite by celebrating the first "The Best Things in Life are Free" Day, which will become an annual event. The purpose of the day is two fold: to appreciate the everyday things in life that are already free, such as hugs from loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl , walks in the park and lending a helping hand to someone who needs it; and to celebrate the valuable services you can get for free all year such asO. 1. Directory assistance from 1-800-FREE411 2. Blood pressure screenings at supermarkets and pharmacies 3. Home maintenance tips and advice for do-it-yourself projects at free in-store clinics provided by your local Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box (www.homedepot.com) 4. Old couches and other home furnishings furnishings the extra type or quantity of hair on the head, tail, ears or legs, specified for a particular breed. For example, the feathers in setters, the beard in Bearded collies, the eyebrows in Schnauzers. found at The Freecycle Network (www.freecycle.org) 5. A copy of your credit report to make sure everything is as it should be (www.freecreditreport.com) 6. Books and media from your local public library (www.librarysites.info) 7. A day at the museum on free admission days 8. Online courses offered by MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (www.ocw.mit.edu) or lessons on how to run a small business (www.sba.gov) 9. Classes offered at your local Apple store on business and entertainment software, music programs and computer basics (www.apple.com) 10. A free, annual scoop of Ben and Jerry's ice cream on April 17 (www.benjerry.com) Wonder what else you can get for free or think should be free? Visit www.TheBestThingsInLifeAreFreeDay.com and join the celebration. About Jingle Networks Jingle Networks, Inc. is an American media network offering a free directory assistance service called 1-800-FREE411. Consumers dial 1-800-FREE411 (1-800-373-3411) from any phone in the United States to use the toll-free service, which allows callers to obtain any Jingle Networks, operator of the nation's leading ad-supported directory assistance service 1-800-FREE411, has significantly changed the directory assistance market by giving consumers an anytime, anywhere source of free information on the phone. 1-800-FREE411 is for anyone who owns a phone and needs information but is dissatisfied dis·sat·is·fied adj. Feeling or exhibiting a lack of contentment or satisfaction. dis·sat  is·fied with the high
cost of directory assistance. Jingle Networks has changed the industry
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targeted customer base who are ready-to-buy, garnering a response rate
twice that of other direct response media. For more information, visit:
www.free411.com/.
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